Exposing the structure of an Arctic food web

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Wirta, Helena K., Vesterinen, Eero J., Hamback, Peter A., Weingartner, Elisabeth, Rasmussen, Claus, Reneerkens, Jeroen, Schmidt, Niels M., Gilg, Olivier, Roslin, Tomas
• Other Authors: Department of Agricultural Sciences, Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Calidris; DNA barcoding; generalism; Greenland; Hymenoptera; molecular diet analysis; Pardosa; Plectrophenax; specialism; Xysticus; MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; APPARENT COMPETITION; HOST-SPECIFICITY; POLLINATION NETWORKS; HERBIVOROUS INSECTS; MOLECULAR-DETECTION; TROPICAL FOREST; GLOBAL PATTERNS; BEAR ISLAND; DIVERSITY; 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; Arctic; Bear Island; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/162256

How food webs are structured has major implications for their stability and dynamics. While poorly studied to date, arctic food webs are commonly assumed to be simple in structure, with few links per species. If this is the case, then different parts of the web may be weakly connected to each other,...